Idealized 3D auxetic mechanical metamaterial: an analytical, numerical, and experimental study

Ghavidelnia, N, Bodaghi, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-944X and Hedayati, R, 2021. Idealized 3D auxetic mechanical metamaterial: an analytical, numerical, and experimental study. Materials, 14 (4), p. 993.

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Abstract

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made rationally-designed structures that present unprecedented mechanical properties not found in nature. One of the most well-known mechanical metamaterials is auxetics, which demonstrates negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) behavior that is very beneficial in several industrial applications. In this study, a specific type of auxetic metamaterial structure namely idealized 3D re-entrant structure is studied analytically, numerically, and experimentally. The noted structure is constructed of three types of struts—one loaded purely axially and two loaded simultaneously flexurally and axially, which are inclined and are spatially defined by angles θ and φ. Analytical relationships for elastic modulus, yield stress, and Poisson’s ratio of the 3D re-entrant unit cell are derived based on two well-known beam theories namely Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko. Moreover, two finite element approaches one based on beam elements and one based on volumetric elements are implemented. Furthermore, several specimens are additively manufactured (3D printed) and tested under compression. The analytical results had good agreement with the experimental results on the one hand and the volumetric finite element model results on the other hand. Moreover, the effect of various geometrical parameters on the mechanical properties of the structure was studied, and the results demonstrated that angle θ (related to tension-dominated struts) has the highest influence on the sign of Poisson’s ratio and its extent, while angle φ (related to compression-dominated struts) has the lowest influence on the Poisson’s ratio. Nevertheless, the compression-dominated struts (defined by angle φ) provide strength and stiffness for the structure. The results also demonstrated that the structure could have zero Poisson’s ratio for a specific range of θ and φ angles. Finally, a lightened 3D re-entrant structure is introduced, and its results are compared to those of the idealized 3D re-entrant structure.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Materials
Creators:	Ghavidelnia, N., Bodaghi, M. and Hedayati, R.
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Date:	2021
Volume:	14
Number:	4
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/ma14040993 DOI 1410775 Other
Rights:	Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	25 Feb 2021 09:34
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:05
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42376

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